Roll tape container



Feb. 8, 1938.

s. J. ELLENBURG ROLL TAPE CONTAINER mixed Aug. 22, 1934 ATTRNS.

Patented Feb. 8, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROLL TAPE CONTAINERApplication August 22, 1934, Serial No. 740,913

4 Claims.

This invention relates to adhesive and other roll tape containers fromwhich such tapes are projected as desired for use, and the objects ofthe invention are to provide improvements in such containers whereby avariety of and/or widths of tapes and other adhesive devices may beinstantly presented for use, to thereby avoid the present requirement ofkeeping on hand several containers and the great loss of time inchanging from one to the other as the work of repairing a lot of filepapers, manuscripts or the like, is undertaken.

In the drawing Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved device asseen from the front end.

Fig. 2 is a plan view with the upper wall omitted to show thearrangement of adhesive or other papers or strips within.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of Fig. 2 as seen from the line 3-3 ofFig. 2.

With further reference to the drawing the device comprises a containerpreferably made of thin sheet metal taking the general form of a pointedheart when seen in plan as in Fig. 2 and comprising a top wall I, bottom2, and side walls 3 which terminate in a slot I! at the apex of theheart. These walls are permanently secured together (after filling thecontainer) as by soldering, crimping, or the use of small ears 4 fromone part projecting through small slots in the adjacent part and bentover, and within the forward part of the container or converging sidesis a pair of extra curved walls or guides 5 firmly secured in place.These extra walls are spaced slightly from the outer walls of the con- 5tainer so as to form slight channels through which the gummed tape isdrawn, are joined at their forward ends to form an apex 6 extendingwithin the slot formed by the side walls, and at their rearward ends arecurved inwardly as at 4 1 to readily guide strips of paper or othermaterial respectively from rolls 8, 9 arranged within the container,through the channels or guides and out of the apex of the device as at 8and 9'.

As one of the objects is to provide a container 45 which will dispensevarious widths of tapes, roll 8 is shown full width of the containerheight, while roll 9 is only about half width, also the materials of therolls may be of different kinds, the wide one say as of cloth or opaquepaper,

50 and the narrow one of transparent or translucent pellicule, so thatthey may be used, the first, say on back of a torn piece of printedmatter or manuscript, and the second, over the same tear but on the faceof the sheet. To keep the nar- 55 row roll in best position forunrolling I may provide a partition 28 to support the narrow roll and awall H to separate both rolls. The rolls of tape may, if desired, be ofdifferent sizes or lengths, as well as of dilierent quality or kind, ifdesired, gummed or plain, also with or without printing.

To further adapt the container to the work of repairing and/or bindingfile documents, I provide a supply of gummed eyelets l2 in a tube I3positioned forward of the tape rolls 8 and 9 and 1 between the curvedguide walls 5. These eyelets l2 are of paper, cloth or the like, and areresiliently forced outwardly by a light coiled spring I4 to stop againstan inwardly turned marginal flange l5 at the outer open end of the tube,and 15 which flange extends but about two-thirds around the edge of thetube so as to have a free space toward the forward edge of the containerand through which space the eyelets may be slipped out one at a timewith the finger. 20

The opposite side walls 3 are each formed with a finger slot is throughwhich the tapes may be urged outward through the slot I! at the apex ofthe container, and to facilitate withdrawing of the tapes by contactwith the tip of the finger, 25 walls 5 are each provided with anelongated flat boss 5, which are positioned close to walls 3 and withinthe outline of slots l6, and against which bosses the tapes are pressedwith the finger and then moved forward. After drawing out the de- 30sired length it is torn off against one of the side walls which is leftwith a sharp corner for this purpose.

The elongated boss 5 makes it much easier to slide the tape out with thefinger as it permits of a large free space for guiding the tape yetkeeps the finger contact elevated close to the outer Wall of thecontainer and thereby also avoids danger of cutting the finger on theedges of the slot I6.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A roll tape package comprising a box formed at one side with an apexwith a slot in the apex,

a plurality of separate rolls of tape in said box with the free ends ofthe tapes extending out of the apex, and means within the box guidingthe tapes to said apex for dispensing therefrom and arranged to maintainthe tapes separated substantially to the point of emergence.

2. A roll tape package comprising a box formed at one side with an apexwith a slot in the apex,

a plurality of separate rolls of tape in said box with the free ends ofthe tapes extending out of the apex, means within the box guiding thetapes separately'to said apex for dispensing therefrom, the rolls oftape ithin the box being of dissimilar width with the widestsubstantiallfequal to the space between the walls of the box, and apartition in the box supporting the narrower roll of tape in position. 7

3. A roll tape paokage'comprising a box substantially of heart shapewhen viewed in plan and formed with an apex at the small end of theheart a slot in the apex, a pluralityr of separate rolls of tape in saidbox with the free ends of the tapes extending out of the apexj meanswithin the box guiding the tapes separately to said apex for dispensingtherefrom, and said box provided with finger slots in opposite sidesadjacent said apex.

4. A device for dispensing tape comprising a sheet metal containeradaptedflm hold a roll of tape and having a slot through which the tapeextends, a finger slot in; the side wall of the container to expose thetape for movement by the finger, a guiding wall within the containerunder the finger slot guiding the tape close to said side veall, saidguiding wall provided with outwardly raised boss aligned with but 33fsmaller area than said finger slot and falling within the outline of theslot and against which boss the tape is pressed by the fingerrlwhenmoving the tape, all so that the finger will be kept substantially outof the slot when moving the tape.

STANFORD J. ELLENBURG=

